Who Benefited from the British Empire?
Gresham College Lectures
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The Importance of Education in India
He said that as India is treated at present, all the new departments opened in the name of civilisation, advancement and progress simply resolve themselves into so much new burden on exhausting India. Even more than that, he said, there was a drain of expertise and knowledge which left India when the Europeans retired home. The only reason why the Indian government does not go into bankruptcy is that it can, by its despotism, squeeze out more and more from the helpless taxpayer without mercy or without let or hindrance. He went even further to say that free trade between England and India is something like a race between a starving, exhausting, invalid and a strong man with a horse to ride on.
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